Foreign Video

You may recall Slate jumping on the YouTube tip, and the fruit of this latest cultural awesomeness is Wilber Pan - Bu De Bu Ai (Have To Love)


proving that notwithstanding certain slander about Asians, there is one type of cheese that seems to be universally appealing.

If you don't love this immediately, try it with extra irony, which is how slate served it up and we are hooked.

Super props to Louren for finding a translation of the song presented as a way to learn mandarin through pop music. Awesome awesomeness

In all seriousness (as much as I can mustard anywho) the Slate article misses that the obvious improvement of the lip-synched version through the extra layers of semiotic coding goes back to a ccanonical rant (circa 2000) that I need to post about how after our society is just an archieological record, the culiminating cultural product of the 20th century, the one that concises describes all of it and ties the 19th and 21st centuries together is Pink Wizard of Frand Lloyd Oz